Fabio Palombo was born in Lower Saxony in 1982 and started piano and ballet lessons at the age of eight. After high school graduation he trained in ballet at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart. His first engagement took him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2003 under the direction of Sylviane Bayard, where he danced in works choreographed by Heinz Spoerli, Youri Vámos, Angelin Preljocaj and Uwe Scholz. From 2004 he danced in the company at Leipzig Ballet, while also taking solo roles in ballets by Uwe Scholz, George Balanchine, Mauro Bigonzetti, John Cranko, Kenneth MacMillan, Glen Tetley, Marco Goecke, Peter Schaufuss, Youri Vámos and others. Since 2012 Fabio Palombo has worked freelance in Berlin and began working together with Xenia Wiest as an assistant. He has worked on the ballet “Quinque Viae – Dynamics of Existence”( 2013) at Berghain in Berlin, “live now think later” (2013) in the Kremlin gala “Stars of the 21st Century” in Moscow and “The Running System” (2014) in the Annual Gala of the Stars in California. He worked as Artistic Adviser to the fashion magazine Vogue for a photo series on the 2014 Berlinale and worked together with Sean Suozzi, a soloist with the New York City Ballet, as ballet master for a new work by Marco Goecke. After Fabio Palombo had staged a pas de deux from Marco Goecke’s ballet “Thin Skin” at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and worked as the choreographer’s ballet master in the new work “All Long Dem Day” at the Berlin State Ballet School in 2015, he staged “Blushing” at the Hagen Theatre Ballet and was assistant on the world premiere of Marco Goecke’s “Nijinski” with Gauthier Dance at Theaterhaus Stuttgart in 2016.